Xouthos the Polemarch

Xouthos the Polemarch (died 431 BC) was a Spartan general during the Peloponnesian War. He was killed by the mercenary Kassandra during the unsuccessful siege of Athens in 431 BC.

Biography
Xouthos the Polemarch was the strategos in command of the Spartan army besieging Athens at the start of the Peloponnesian War in 431 BC, and he was based from the Acharnai Military Camp to the northwest of the city. The Athenian general Cleon secretly hired the mercenary Kassandra to sabotage the Spartan siege efforts by burning their supplies and assassinating their Polemarch, so she infiltrated the camp and torched the Spartan supply tents. She then lured Xouthos towards the city walls, where he and a party of his men were ambushed and killed by arrows from both the Athenian archers and from Kassandra's bow.